Blog: Posts by Paul Au
CFP open for Data on Kubernetes Day at KubeCon EU 2025
We’re excited to announce that the Data on Kubernetes (DoK) Community will once again host a co-located event at KubeCon EU 2025 in London. As the leading gathering for DoK…
Vitess Joins Data on Kubernetes Community Collaborator Program
The Data on Kubernetes Community is excited to announce the addition of Vitess as its newest Community Collaborator. Vitess is an open-source database clustering system that helps scale MySQL databases…
Calling on Contributors for the Data on Kubernetes SIG Get Started Project
Since its inception in 2020, the Data on Kubernetes Community (DoKC) has been on a mission to promote the use of Kubernetes for stateful and data workloads. While we’ve made…
Anatomy of a DBaaS: Bringing self-serve databases to Kubernetes with open source
This talk was an under-the-hood look at developing an open source DBaaS. We looked at the components that are used for its backend services, frontend, and the inner workings of…
Data on Kubernetes Survey: Contribute to the Collective Knowledge of our Community
The Data on Kubernetes (DoK) Community is conducting its annual survey to understand the technology issues and trends for running data and stateful workloads on Kubernetes. This year’s survey will…
Announcing Lori Lorusso as Co-Chair for the Data on Kubernetes SIG
We are thrilled to announce that Lori Lorusso, Head of Community at Percona, has been appointed as co-chair for the Data on Kubernetes Special Interest Group (SIG). This appointment marks…
Released From the Cage: Apache Kafka Without Its ZooKeeper
For years, Apache Kafka relied on Apache ZooKeeper for maintaining its metadata and coordination. But that is coming to an end. After a lot of work in the Apache Kafka…
Lightning Talk: Enabling Hot Restart of Stateful Applications Including GPU-Accelerate AI/ML Workloads
This talk both described and demonstrated how stateful applications, including GPU-accelerated AI/ML workflows, can be automatically hot restarted after pod kill/eviction events that are augmented by transparent memory-snapshotting techniques. Applications…
Lessons Learned from Building a Database Operator
In this talk, we shared our journey in developing Kubernetes Operators to run MongoDB in critical production Kubernetes environments. This presentation offered a deep dive into the lessons learned from…